I did, several times, together with a couple of full error scans too just in case it was something to do with the drive. Didn't make a difference. There was also plenty of space on the drive (some 40GB) and the save itself always passed an fsck._________________Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 HardInfo Report
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

Try this to cure your save file issues.
Initially boot Puppy and reboot to make a save file.
Make a save file before you do anything but very basic settings.
Do not install any program packages before you have made a save file and have booted using it.

The reason for this is several things.
Until you have a save file anything you do is in memory only. With 512 MB of memory, program packages, of some size, can eat it all up just to download and install. A pet package, in the process of download and install, will use about 3 times the needed installed space.
The downloaded compressed pet file, the uncompressed pet file contents, and finally the installed package.
After the install is complete, you may still have the downloaded pet file along with the installed package taking up space.

So good rule for Puppy is to make a save file and be booted using it before doing any package installs.

The other thing is, installs will look like they are being done OK even if memory fills up during the install process._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

Try this to cure your save file issues.
Initially boot Puppy and reboot to make a save file.
Make a save file before you do anything but very basic settings.

Funnily enough, that was one of the very first things I thought of checking, just before defragmenting and error-checking the drive. The save files were always 512MB and the total of the very few downloaded pets was barely 20MB. Space in the save, or the destination partition, wasn't the issue.

Just to be thorough, I've defragmented the drive again before creating a new save. This time I only did the basic setup, didn't install anything and with the exception of giving the file a name accepted all of the default options when creating the save. Same problems as before.

The ironic thing about this is that the installation which has benefited the most from trying to get to the bottom of this is actually the XP install! Not only is it well-and-truly defragmented, I also finally noticed I'd forgotten to grow the NTFS partition to the full size of the drive after I had to do a wipe and reinstall (my XP disc is pre-SP2 and the partition size limit of NTFS used to be 128GB)._________________Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 HardInfo Report
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

There is definitely some bug where the save file is created but not being mounted to save the session. It's possibly a timing issue. I think I'm onto it so if you can bear with me for a couple of days I'll post some shutdown scripts that attempt to fix the problem. You will be able to install them pfix=ram. Stay tuned.

BTW, did the new carl9170 firmware improve your wifi at all? It is in the 5.3.7.1 build._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

There is definitely some bug where the save file is created but not being mounted to save the session. It's possibly a timing issue.

Hmm, that could be it. The HDD is a SATA device, the USB memory keys were connected to USB 2 ports. There's quite a difference in transfer speed there, could explain why I didn't see the problem on the latter devices.

01micko wrote:

I think I'm onto it so if you can bear with me for a couple of days I'll post some shutdown scripts that attempt to fix the problem. You will be able to install them pfix=ram. Stay tuned.

I'll keep an eye out. May be busy the next couple of days though, got a model railway show on.

01micko wrote:

BTW, did the new carl9170 firmware improve your wifi at all? It is in the 5.3.7.1 build.

TBH, I haven't extensively tested it yet as I've been concentrating on the save file issue. It does connect and seems to run at a good speed but I haven't been running sessions long enough to see if there's a return of the problem._________________Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 HardInfo Report
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

Is that save on an NTFS partition a brand-new one created in 5.3.7.1 or one created in an earlier version of Slacko but upgraded? As I've reported above, I've been having trouble creating saves on NTFS partitions but I was using the non-PAE Opera version of 5.3.7.1._________________Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 HardInfo Report
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

Is that save on an NTFS partition a brand-new one created in 5.3.7.1 or one created in an earlier version of Slacko but upgraded? As I've reported above, I've been having trouble creating saves on NTFS partitions but I was using the non-PAE Opera version of 5.3.7.1.

Yes, a totally new savefile on a recently defragmented NTFS partition.

Tried installing pwidgets... both 2.3.8-pr20 and 2.4.0
Both installed and worked OK except both will not show the 'weather icons' (just a small rectangle box appears.)

Me too.

I've been trying slacko5371 (beautiful job Micko, works perfect for me in every way except this one.

Never being one to let cluelessness stand in my way I decided to fix it. I started by subbing in other fonts in pdingobats place in the weather widget and they worked but giving letters in place of pictures. So I figured it has to be a problem with pdingobats, right?

Fearlessly I downloaded Fontforge from the PPM and set to work. (BTW you need the devx file loaded to get it working). 300 items on the menus, I think I figured out about 10 of them , but that was enough. I now have pdingobats2.ttf which works with Slacko5371! Mind you I only know it works for cloudy skies and snow. May have to wait awhile to see the other icons.

I've made pdingobats2-0.01.pet which I will upload over in the Pwidgets thread with instructions. Will link back to this thread after I have it done.

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